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How we learned to teach ‘small children’
13 January 202220 February 2023

How we learned to teach ‘small children’

Articles by Harley Richardson3 comments

I have contributed two chapters to Routledge‘s History of Education, a primer for undergraduates which is due to be published in 2022. My chapters describe the development of liberal education from Ancient Greece to the Industrial Revolution and the arrival of mass education in England during the 18th and 19th centuries. With so much to cover and only so many […]

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